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The Carl George Bjorkman Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$332k
Granted FY2024still arriving
21
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$55k
Largest
01What you fund
0192% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172024.

Human Services$311kHealth$250kHousing & Shelter$220kEducation$159kEnvironment$114kYouth Development$100kPublic Safety & Disaster$100kInternational$90kOther$0
02FY2024 · 21 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $10k
  • $10k–50k18 grants · $267k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $55k
$12,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$7.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Fostering Hope Foundation$55,000
Moab Valley Multi-Culture Center$30,000
Dale House Project$25,000
Peak Education$20,000
Doctors Without Borders$20,000
World Central Kitchen$20,000
Individual grant recipient$15,000
Moab Free Health Clinic$15,000
Moab Solutions Inc$15,000
Youth Garden Project$15,000
Upadowna Bike Clinic Too$12,000
Asian Youth Services$10,000
Partners in Housing$10,000
C 4Ever Green$10,000
National Alliance on Mental Illness$10,000
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY18–24, $166k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 24% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Freedom Service Dogs Inc: $5k → 8%Providence Network: $10k → 12%Fostering Hope Foundation: $55k → 9%Providence Network: $5k → 12%Providence Network: $5k → 12%Providence Network: $5k → 12%Providence Network: $5k → 12%The Place: $25k → 9%Providence Network: $5k → 12%Providence Network: $5k → 12%Fostering Hope Foundation: $18k → 9%Fostering Hope Foundation: $8k → 9%Fostering Hope Foundation: $6k → 9%Fostering Hope Foundation: $5k → 9%Fostering Hope Foundation: $5k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

IL
NY
MA
OR
NJ
UT
CO
MD
AZ
TN
DC
FL

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.5M · 26 repeat orgs$160k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +38% since the first grant, against +5% for the ones you funded once.

26 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

26
12

Total granted

$1.5M
$135k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+38%
+5%

Still filing today

69%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Housing & ShelterEducationHuman ServicesInternationalYouth DevelopmentHealthOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • TD
    The Dale House Project
    7× · 2018–2024 · $160k · revenue +17%
  • PE
    Peak Education
    7× · 2018–2024 · $112k · revenue ×12
  • MS
    Moab Solutions Inc
    7× · 2018–2024 · $104k · revenue +95%

Funded once

  • TP
    The Place
    one grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue -7%
  • AMERICAN NEAR EAST REFUGEE AID
    one grant, 2023 · $20k · revenue +2%
  • FC
    First Congregational Church UCC
    one grant, 2021 · $20k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Family Housing Network of Fort Collins Inc

Faith Family Hospitality's mission is to support families experiencing homelessness to achieve sustainable self-sufficiency in a timely and dignified manner. This interfaith volunteer effort coordinates the work of 30 diverse Fort Collins…

Human Services
2
Summitstone Health Partners

SummitStone provides comprehensive behavioral health services across all care levels: 24/7 crisis services, inpatient and outpatient treatment, housing, residential care, and peer support. We partner with law enforcement, schools, and…

Health
3
Colorado Homeless Families Inc

CHF assists working families in their quest to go from homelessness to self-sufficiency for life.

Housing & Shelter
4
Colorado Mental Wellness Network

To empower Coloradans affected by mental health conditions and providing them with skills and tools necessary to achieve their personal wellness goal.

Health
5
Pueblo Rescue Mission

Because of our love for God, we extend his mercy as we strive to empower and improve the lives of unsheltered adults in Pueblo, CO, through provisions of food, shelter and navigational support services.

6
Family Promise - Salt Lake

We help families experiencing homelessness find lasting independence and security.

Housing & Shelter
7
Fort Collins Habitat for Humanity

Seeking to put god's love into action; habitat for humanity brings people together to build homes, communities, and hope to realize our vision of a world where everyone has a decent place to live. fort collins habitat for humanity adheres…

Housing & Shelter
8
Colorado Physician Health Program Corporation

The mission of the Colorado Physician Health Program Corporation is to promote the health and well-being of physicians and physician assistants through evaluation, treatment referral, support education and research.

Health
9
Mental Health Center of Boulder County Inc

Partnering to improve quality of life as a nonprofit organization dedicated to mental health and wellness. healing is our purpose, help is our promise, health is our passion.

10
Urban Peak Denver

Urban peak helps youth experiencing homelessness and youth at risk of becoming homeless overcome real life challenges by providing essential services and a supportive community, empowering them to become self-sufficient adults.

Housing & Shelter
11
Colorado Village Collaborative

Empowering community, enacting change. colorado village collaborative exists to bridge the gap between the streets and stable housing by creating and operating transformational shelter communities in partnership with people experiencing…

Housing & Shelter
12
Colorado Coalition for the Homeless

The mission of the colorado coalition for the homeless is to work collaboratively toward the prevention of homelessness and the creation of lasting solutions for families, children, and individuals who are experiencing or at-risk of…

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Dale House Project and the most unlike its peers is National Alliance On Mental Illness. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyEducation Equity LeadershipCommunity FoundationsSouth Asian Cultural and Sp…Urban Agriculture & Food Ac…Christian Missionary Organi…Land Conservation Organizat…Legal Aid & Immigration Ser…Child and Family ServicesAnimal Rescue and AdoptionAffordable Housing Developm…Community Health CentersIndependent K-8 Schools
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 27 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number23%4%<5yr15%11%5–10yr21%21%10–20yr17%36%20–35yr12%21%35–55yr13%7%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value23%1%<5yr15%4%5–10yr21%33%10–20yr17%39%20–35yr12%15%35–55yr13%9%55yr+

The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/30
the rest of the field
13%
4,367/33,387

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

28 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 28 of the 41 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
28/28
Grantees still filing
18/28
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Individual grant recipient — $73,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientNational Alliance on Mental Illness — $60,000 · OtherNational Alliance on Mental IllnessWESTSIDE CARES INC — $50,000 · OtherWESTSIDE CARES INCUpadowna Bike Clinic Too — $49,000 · OtherUpadowna Bike Clinic TooApostolos — $25,000 · OtherMOAB FREE HEALTH CLINIC — $76,000 · OtherMOAB FREE HEALTH CLINICMOAB VALLEY MULTICULTURAL CENTER — $77,500 · OtherMOAB VALLEY MULTICULTURAL CENTERCHRISTIAN HEALING NETWORK dba Mission Medical Center — $45,000 · OtherCHRISTIAN HEALING NETWORK dba Mission Medica…+15 more — $179,500 · Other+15 moreThe Dale House Project — $160,000 · Housing & ShelterThe Dale House Proje…Partners in Housing Inc — $80,000 · Housing & ShelterPartners in Housing …Homeward Pikes Peak — $40,000 · Housing & ShelterHomeward Pikes PeakPARTNERS IN HOUSING INC — $15,000 · Housing & ShelterPeak Education — $112,000 · EducationPeak Educati…THE COLORADO SPRINGS SCHOOL — $42,000 · EducationTHE COLORADO…SCIENCE MOAB ENGAGEMENT INITIATIVE — $22,750 · EducationSCIENCE MOAB…+1 more — $5,000 · EducationFOSTERING HOPE FOUNDATION — $96,000 · Human ServicesFOSTERING H…PROVIDENCE NETWORK fka THE EXECUTIVE NETWORK — $40,000 · Human ServicesPROVIDENCE …The Place — $25,000 · Human ServicesThe Place+1 more — $5,000 · Human ServicesWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $80,000 · InternationalWORLD CENT…MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $50,000 · InternationalMEDECINS S…AMERICAN NEAR EAST REFUGEE AID — $20,000 · InternationalAMERICAN N…Moab Solutions Inc — $104,000 · Community ImprovementASIAN YOUTH SERVICES — $85,000 · Youth DevelopmentYOUNG LIFE — $15,000 · Youth Development
Other$635,000Housing & Shelter$295,000Education$181,750Human Services$166,000International$150,000Community Improvement$104,000Youth Development$100,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetThe Dale House Project — $160,000 over 7y, 3.5% of budgetPeak Education — $112,000 over 7y, 4.4% of budgetMoab Solutions Inc — $104,000 over 7y, 23% of budgetFOSTERING HOPE FOUNDATION — $96,000 over 6y, 3.8% of budgetASIAN YOUTH SERVICES — $85,000 over 7y, 10% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $80,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPartners in Housing Inc — $80,000 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetMOAB VALLEY MULTICULTURAL CENTER — $77,500 over 7y, 3.8% of budgetMOAB FREE HEALTH CLINIC — $76,000 over 7y, 2.5% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWESTSIDE CARES INC — $50,000 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetCHRISTIAN HEALING NETWORK dba Mission Medical Center — $45,000 over 3y, 6.3% of budgetTHE COLORADO SPRINGS SCHOOL — $42,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetPROVIDENCE NETWORK fka THE EXECUTIVE NETWORK — $40,000 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetHomeward Pikes Peak — $40,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetThe Place — $25,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetSCIENCE MOAB ENGAGEMENT INITIATIVE — $22,750 over 5y, 4.5% of budgetColorado Healing Fund — $20,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetPIKES PEAK COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN NEAR EAST REFUGEE AID — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYOUTH GARDEN PROJECT — $15,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetYOUNG LIFE — $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNational Alliance On Mental Illness — $10,000 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetMISSION MEDICAL CENTER — $10,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetFREEDOM SERVICE DOGS INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOLORADO PLATEAU FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds The Dale House Project
  • Who funds Peak Education
  • Who funds Moab Solutions Inc
  • Who funds FOSTERING HOPE FOUNDATION
  • Who funds ASIAN YOUTH SERVICES
  • Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC
  • Who funds Partners in Housing Inc
  • Who funds MOAB VALLEY MULTICULTURAL CENTER
  • Who funds MOAB FREE HEALTH CLINIC
  • Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC
  • Who funds WESTSIDE CARES INC
  • Who funds CHRISTIAN HEALING NETWORK dba Mission Medical Center
  • Who funds THE COLORADO SPRINGS SCHOOL
  • Who funds PROVIDENCE NETWORK fka THE EXECUTIVE NETWORK
  • Who funds Homeward Pikes Peak
  • Who funds The Place
  • Who funds SCIENCE MOAB ENGAGEMENT INITIATIVE
  • Who funds Colorado Healing Fund
  • Who funds PIKES PEAK COMMUNITY FOUNDATION
  • Who funds AMERICAN NEAR EAST REFUGEE AID
  • Who funds YOUTH GARDEN PROJECT
  • Who funds PARTNERS IN HOUSING INC
  • Who funds YOUNG LIFE
  • Who funds National Alliance On Mental Illness
  • Who funds MISSION MEDICAL CENTER
  • Who funds FREEDOM SERVICE DOGS INC
  • Who funds COLORADO PLATEAU FOUNDATION
  • Who funds RAWTOOLS INC

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The Myron Stratton HomeCO24.1× affinity9 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Myron Stratton Home · Pikes Peak Community Foundation · INDYGIVE DBA Give Pikes Peak · Colorado Springs Health Foundation · The Joseph Henry Edmondson Foundation · El Pomar Foundation · Inasmuch Foundation · Esther M & Freeman E Everett Charitable · Pikes Peak United Way · Colorado Gives Foundation · The May Family Foundation · Luther T McCauley Charitable Trust Xxxxx3001

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization The Carl George Bjorkman Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 10%1%4%8%15%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 0%
  • Mission Medical Center0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY2025

Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.

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How do I get to The Carl George Bjorkman Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Carl George Bjorkman Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 41 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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